Please review each week's topics and reading in the sidebar on the right =>

PART I: THEORY

Week 1: Introduction to the course + topic (requirements, the syllabus, etc.) + preliminary discussions of some underlying concepts (Enmity, social thinking, attributing behaviour to persons or situations, attitudes and actions, etc.). 

Week 2: Group Formation, Social Identity Theory, Enemy Image and Conflict

Week 3: National Holiday- no class.

Week 4: Prejudice (What is prejudice, Social and cognitive roots of Prejudice, Race and Gender Prejudice), Stereotyping, Prejudice, Discrimination, Scapegoating: Class exercise. Group behaviour and Dynamics (Group polarization, Groupthink), Realistic Conflict Theory, Sherif’s Robbers Cave Experiment, Social Dominance Theory)

Week 5: Knowledge Structures (Motivated Reasoning, Behavioural /social scripts and influences), The Elaboration likelihood model), The Mass Media and its ability to shape our opinions, The language of war, the 'pro-us' illusion- reading week.

Week 6: Visual representations of enmity => Propaganda (Definition, Characteristics, Techniques, Why does it exist? How does it work? Creating an Enemy using propaganda.

PART II: APPLICATION

Week 7: Midterm Quiz + The Winter War

Week 8: 'Enemies of America'

Week 9: Enemy Images and Hollywood

Week 10:  The "Troubles" in Northern Ireland 

Week 11: The Israeli Palestinian Conflict 

Weeks 12+13: Students' presentations + class discussions